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Rita Washko MD

@ritawashko.bsky.social
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Retired Internist. Here for Science, Medicine, Politics. Religion averse. 25th Amendment is long overdue. Democracy is under attack by purveyors of Project 2025. #Resist

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2014sdg.bsky.social @2014sdg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s a GOP War on Women.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Epstein Files Transparency Act II has some serious teeth
Congressman Thomas Massie is NOT fucking around.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If we could just get the average billionaire to pay his/her fair share of taxes, we wouldn’t be in this financial mess. There, fixed it for you, tone-deaf, elitist Oz.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Harris wouldn’t be doing any of the heinous things that the felon has been doing, instead, she’d be focused on running the country and attempting to make life better for the avg American. I miss calm and quiet. I miss respect and morality. I miss the America that could have been.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Houstonians are gathering to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and call for the abolition of ICE and prosecution of its killer agents. Shut it down for Lorenzo! ICE OUT NOW!!
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Pull the plug. He has to be brain dead at this point.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡We need to kick Israel to the curb. Bring the $ home, take care of our own—now THAT would be America First. They are an anchor around our necks.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
CDC scientists wrote a robust paper on the safety results of the Covid vaccine. The acting director Bhattacharya, w/o experience in vaccines, blocked it based on his non-expert opinions on how vaccine safety studies should be conducted. An ongoing pattern of censorship. 🧪 archive.today/3QN9x
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Opinion | Why the CDC refusing to publish covid vaccine research is so worrying
The publication of the study in another journal doesn’t erase the troubling questions raised by its suppression.
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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My entire read on Platner has been, "Everything is gender." And when I tell children huddling in the climate decimated wastelands about our once great empire, I'll tell them how we threw it all away because people cared more about maintaining social constructs than society itself.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I refuse to watch the bloated, corrupt pedo felon ANY TIME of day.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
What a legacy! Conservatism? No thanks.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Diseases. Environmental protections, worker protections are being dismantled. Meanwhile potus, his family and friends are siphoning billions into their pockets. All of the above and more is today’s conservatism. Oh, and don’t forget the #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpstein
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
They feed insect-infested, spoiled food to detainees, where physical and sexual abuse happens, all so that GOP donor-owners can get richer; our public health system is being torn apart by a man with a drug-damaged diseased brain…hello polio, measles, mumps, diphtheria and many other once controlled
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
inflated contracts to gop contractors to repair the nation’s Reflection Pool; demolishing a section of our WH, leaving a hole in the ground, by a demented, mentally ill 80 yo potus; unlawful arrests and abuse of veterans, legal citizens by ICE thugs; concentration camps for ICE detainees, places…
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I’m not a Dem, but an Independent. And I have questions for you. So exactly what do conservatives care about? Instead of stating feelings, let’s state cold hard facts. You obviously care about: blowing up a solid agreement with Iran RE: nukes, replacing with a costly no-end-in-sight war; no-bid
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Third world country sh*t.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinFiles
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calliesue.bsky.social @calliesue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
…so many reasons not to live in texas…
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
They literally met in the Situation Room to come up with a defense for the President of the United States raping children.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It’s about time AMA woke up. Where the hell have you been? Putting your head in the sand while our health care and public health system is shredded is not an option. Do your damn job and push back.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...
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The U.S. welcomed this child of the Vietnam War. Why did he die in ICE custody? | Will Bunch
In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui, other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?
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Dina Sayegh Doll @askdinadoll.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
BREAKING: The New York Times publishes a detailed exposé on what may be one of the biggest cover-ups in American history: the Epstein files. @meidastouch.com
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire while our pay has stagnated. He owns 11 homes while most Texans can’t afford one. He trades favors with rich donors while blocking overtime pay for workers. Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
WaPo, CBS and now it is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction. If you value independent media that cannot be bought, help Democracy Docket grow by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Resist Trump 🤬 🤦🏽‍♂️🇺🇸 💜💙💪🏽 @resist-trumps-rule.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We have to get rid of all the loopholes.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction. If you value independent media that cannot be bought, help Democracy Docket grow by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
NEW EPISODE: As California counts its votes, Trump and his allies are calling it rigged, weaponizing the DOJ and laying the groundwork to reject results they don't like in 2026. I explain what they are up to and why we need to fight back. youtu.be/2LQeLY3Ltpg?...
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Trump Is Spreading a California Election Lie. Here's the Truth.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Well, yeah, they don’t care until it affects them personally! This is a prime example.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Don’t move to Texas! Toxic political atmosphere, corrupt pols control power, women who suffer miscarriages face legal consequences, grid goes down with slightest perturbation, Permian basin has untold gallons of toxic waste that will eventually spill over into the drinking water aquifer..,
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
We need to reassess the pardon power of the presidency. It’s outrageous what has been done, and none of his pardons have benefited the American people, they’ve only benefited his donors and his cronies.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
How are we allowing this to happen? So few of our elected officials are looking into this egregious situation—concentration camps!
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Ok America, wake TF up! We should be doing this as well.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/06/2026
you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...
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Barack Obama Partners with Malcolm Gladwell for New Podcast About an 'Often Overlooked' Subject
Former President Barack Obama is teaming up with journalist Malcolm Gladwell for a new, eight-part podcast series with The History Channel that aims to remind listeners of 'powerful sources of hope' b...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I don’t know that she’ll actually resign. I think she knows she’s the only one keeping the administration halfway on the rails. To be fair, everyone should be pissed about Pulte. He used private financial information to go after Trump’s enemies, what will he do with our most sensitive secrets?
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The tragedy is that this has been normalized.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Can’t be repeated enough…
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Physicians have more power than what they’ve been wielding. Time to use it.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The exasperating thing about Trump‘s nodding off at all of these meetings is that those around him act like everything is copacetic. Really?
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
America, wake up and see what is possible with an elected official who is not corrupt, unlike Trump and his family, his sycophants.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So IKEA understands the bottom line when it comes to energy, but our elected officials are willfully ignorant. Well, guess I’ll be shopping at IKEA in the upcoming future.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My one ask to everyone right now: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
As the unions declined, so did workers’ wages and economic stability. We need to bring the unions back, big tech and corporations are obliterating the middle class. #unionstrong #unions
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Truth
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/05/2026
“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”
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Andy Kim: Nothing's improved since Minnesota—except private prison profits
We spoke to the senator pepper-sprayed outside ICE's Delaney Hall detention center.
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Rita Washko MD @ritawashko.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Why the hell did PA vote for him, he is a hedge fund guy! They have no moral compass, no concern for the avg American.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 27/05/2026
What I saw at Delaney Hall reinforced what we already know: we can't continue to write a blank check to ICE while their violence and lawlessness continue.
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